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(07-26-2025, 07:55 PM)leilanidude Wrote: (07-03-2025, 11:22 PM)randomq Wrote: I can't wait for one of our diehards to explain why this change is a good thing for Hawaii.
Obie has solved your concern caused by your source of information being CBS "news"...
Apparently not.
https://balancedweather.substack.com/p/u...-microwave
"Furthermore, we have learned that the loss of the SSMIS data this summer is simply an acceleration in the timeline of a data termination that was already planned for late in 2026. The DoD does have a replacement microwave instrument - the WSF-M - in orbit and operational, but from what little information I can find about it online it does not seem to have the data resolution to be a replacement for the SSMIS data with regard to the hurricane forecasting applications. It is referred to as a “gap-filler” instrument on this instrument summary page, and the WMO catalog page for the instrument appears to show an instrument with less capabilities than the SSMIS. I did learn from a colleague in the satellite community over the weekend that there are plans for NOAA to get access to the WSF-M data, and I believe Andrew Freedman is referring to that instrument in his article when he says that NOAA should start getting access to microwave data from a new DoD satellite in October.
Even if the WSF-M ends up being a more comparable instrument to the SSMIS than it appears to be from what I can find online currently, it is only one satellite instrument, while the SSMIS data is available from three satellites, so we would still be talking about a significant cutback in the data available to forecasters and degradation of forecasts and warnings regardless. In spite of NOAA spokespeople downplaying the loss of SSMIS because it “is a single dataset in a robust suite of hurricane forecasting and modeling tools in the NWS portfolio,” the fact is SSMIS is a unique, critical data source that there does not appear to be any plan for losing."
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(07-26-2025, 07:55 PM)leilanidude Wrote: Obie has solved your concern caused by your source of information being CBS "news"...
I have a distinct feeling that in a very short time, you will be praising CBS News.
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Hurricane and tropical storm activity south of the islands:
https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2025/...-heats-up/
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(07-28-2025, 10:32 PM)HereOnThePrimalEdge Wrote: Hurricane and tropical storm activity south of the islands:
https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2025/...-heats-up/
We could have used a bit of that moisture in the islands. For a so called tropical rainforest it's too damn dry.
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(07-28-2025, 11:47 PM)Durian Fiend Wrote: We could have used a bit of that moisture in the islands. For a so called tropical rainforest it's too damn dry.
Hmmm.
Almost like something could maybe be changing our climate ever so slightly?
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A decision is reversed, due to reality, the infrared satellite data will remain available as there was no other source available. From The NY Times:
The Department of Defense has said it will cancel plans to discontinue a program that makes public satellite data that is crucial for hurricane forecasting and sea ice monitoring.
The decision, confirmed by the department on Tuesday in an email to The New York Times, is the latest about-face in the agency’s plans for the data.
The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, which hosts the data, shocked scientists by announcing in June that it would stop providing the information at the end of that month, citing “significant cybersecurity risk.” A week later, the agency offered a temporary extension, saying that the data would remain available until July 31, which is just before the usual peak of hurricane season.
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(BIVN) – A new tropical depression has formed in the Eastern Pacific, and is moving towards the west-northwest.
Tropical Depression Eight-E is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm by tonight.
“Long range global models currently show another weakening tropical system, currently Tropical Depression Eight-E, will pass north of the islands from Sunday through Monday, once again disrupting trade winds and producing warm and very humid weather,” the National Weather Service in Honolulu stated on Monday morning.
https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2025/...ai%CA%BBi/
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Good catch HOTPE!
Looks like she just got a name:
TROPICAL STORM HENRIETTE
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It looks as though Henriette is little to no threat, although I note it's likely to cut off the trade winds in a few days. In a way, I'm happy to be away at this point as August/September is always the most uncomfortable time of the year in Hawaii with high temperatures and humidity and few trade winds.
Ironically, I was in the UK a few weeks ago during a heat wave where it was hotter than Hawaii, with no prevailing winds, and very humid. It was unpleasant.
